BillsFanNC Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 10 hours ago, B-Man said: #2 34 million views. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ferguson forever Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said: 34 million views. roughly 35% of the country are morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 4 minutes ago, redtail hawk said: roughly 35% of the country are morons. This estimate is low 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanNC Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 A useful idiot guesstimates on the number of morons in the country. Priceless. @redtail hawk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ferguson forever Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said: A useful idiot guesstimates on the number of morons in the country. Priceless. @redtail hawk living the dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 hour ago, redtail hawk said: roughly 35% of the country are morons. We know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 22 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said: Yes, I believe global inflation would certainly have been much lower under Trump. Under Biden, excessive stimulus, bigger deficits, sanctions, asset seizures and confiscation, disruptions of global supply chains beyond the impacts of COVID, disruptions of oil and gas trade and agreements, draining the SPR, deteriorating relationships with the rest of the world (minus European vassal state). I've got a light workload today so I can do this all day! I am curious how you feel this way The things that have caused inflation would definitely have been there under Trump because it’s not Biden‘s fault. It’s not any presidents fault actually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCBills Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 8 minutes ago, John from Riverside said: I am curious how you feel this way The things that have caused inflation would definitely have been there under Trump because it’s not Biden‘s fault. It’s not any presidents fault actually. I don’t know that we’d be out of the woods under Trump.. He certainly wasn’t some fiscal conservative. That said, I do thing it’s worthy to consider: -What would energy prices look like under Trump? -Would Russia have fully invaded Ukraine? -Would he have curtailed some of the hyper-spending as we exited the pandemic and pushed the country in its entirety to open sooner? The last one, I’m not so sure on. The first two I think are worthwhile questions that absolutely have an effect on the inflationary environment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillStime Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 6 minutes ago, SCBills said: -What would energy prices look like under Trump? No different. 6 minutes ago, SCBills said: -Would Russia have fully invaded Ukraine? Yep 7 minutes ago, SCBills said: -Would he have curtailed some of the hyper-spending as we exited the pandemic and pushed the country in its entirety to open sooner? Curtailed? What did Trump do to our national debt - even BEFORE Covid? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Liberals Try to Undermine Tucker Carlson's First Successful Twitter Show, But It Backfires by Sara Arnold https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/06/08/ousted-cnn-host-brian-stetler-tries-to-undermine-tucker-carlson-but-it-backfires-n2624246 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SectionC3 Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 1 minute ago, B-Man said: Liberals Try to Undermine Tucker Carlson's First Successful Twitter Show, But It Backfires by Sara Arnold https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/06/08/ousted-cnn-host-brian-stetler-tries-to-undermine-tucker-carlson-but-it-backfires-n2624246 Tucker doesn’t need their help. He undermines his show plenty well enough in his own. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 15 minutes ago, B-Man said: Liberals Try to Undermine Tucker Carlson's First Successful Twitter Show, But It Backfires by Sara Arnold https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/06/08/ousted-cnn-host-brian-stetler-tries-to-undermine-tucker-carlson-but-it-backfires-n2624246 Brian Stelter? LOL! I thought that eunuch faded into obscurity... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 Tucker Carlson Ep. 2 is a must watch. The theme is what makes a culture a culture, and why American culture is declining so quickly and so dramatically. His answer: taboos. It’s an interesting and compelling argument, and one with which I am very sympathetic. It is not a comprehensive answer, of course, but as a hypothesis, it explains a lot. Taboos are not laws: they are pre-law. What is legal and illegal is, largely, determined by what is considered taboo. If something is completely socially unacceptable, it will rarely occur and likely be illegal, although the illegality itself is hardly the point. People avoid violating taboos because the social consequences are enormous, and the laws only exist to catch the odd case of people who are willing to violate the taboo. Taboos do what laws cannot: make people want to comply with a stricture regardless of whether they are likely to be caught and prosecuted. They enforce voluntary compliance with social norms–police, after all, are never there when you need them. Shame is, for most people, a far more powerful deterrent than a 1% chance of getting caught doing a crime. Tucker gets to the nub of the matter when it comes to America’s social decline: there is a large-scale, organized effort to eliminate, or rather change, the taboos that regulate society. Things that were once taboo are now considered acceptable, or at least tolerable. Look at any Pride parade or what goes on in Kindergarten classrooms today, and much of it would have been taboo 20-30 years ago. Now such things are essentially mandatory. More at the link: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/09/tucker-carlson-ep-2-is-a-must-watch-n556698 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 (edited) I don't object in principle to Tucker's latest monologue (if this part accurately summarizes it). But Senator Moynihan said it better 30 years ago: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41212064 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/12/28/defining-deviancy-down/03bd5544-2b4a-4271-8450-51ef99f27418/ But this is a sticky business. When I was a kid (think 1960s/70s), being divorced and remarried was just emerging from the "scandalous" age. Reagan was our first such President. Being caught in an affair was deadly to most professions. And then Bill Clinton ... Paying a hooker (or shall we say "having sex with an adult film performer in which money or favors were exchanged") was criminal, and no one would want to be seen with you. And being divorced and remarried multiple times was also a career killer for a budding politician. And then Donald Trump ... Being photographed nude (tastefully! they say) pretty much negated your chances of being America's First Lady. And then Melania ... All of these behaviors were just not acceptable in polite society. Many moral scolds are fine with many (most? all??) of them now. I tend to follow a couple different old maxims: "Conservatism is the theory that every vice should be a crime; Liberalism is the theory that every virtue should be a requirement." "Puritism [read: modern moral conservatism]: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy." Edited June 9, 2023 by The Frankish Reich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 10, 2023 Share Posted June 10, 2023 Not really satire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted June 12, 2023 Share Posted June 12, 2023 Media contorts itself to explain away Tucker’s new Twitter show getting 114M views https://americanwirenews.com/media-contorts-itself-to-explain-away-tuckers-new-twitter-show-getting-114m-views-fox-news-serves-cease-and-desist/ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 Another gem. . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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